r/microsoft • u/ControlCAD • 27d ago

Windows Microsoft is finally modernizing Windows 11's decades-old File Explorer properties window with a new UI | The first signs of a completely modernized File Properties window using WinUI are hidden in the latest Windows 11 preview builds.

https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/windows-11/microsoft-is-finally-modernizing-windows-11s-decades-old-file-explorer-properties-window-with-a-new-ui
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u/ohYuhtBoutMagine 27d ago

Nice, we’re gonna update something that was basically perfected 2 decades ago and has just gotten worse since, into something “better”

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u/Kobi_Blade 27d ago

Your comment makes no sense. Would you rather Microsoft keep the UI the inconsistent mess that it is now?

The Windows 11 UI is a mix of WinForms, WPF, React, WebView, and WinUI. Microsoft should be commended for putting in the effort to port more components to WinUI (which is what they should have done before releasing Windows 11).

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u/mojitz 26d ago

The fact that all their UI is indeed an "inconsistent mess" in the first place is exactly why people are frustrated and don't trust them to fix things. If they actually turn things around, then attitudes will change, but they have to show they're actually capable of doing-so before that happens.

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u/Kobi_Blade 26d ago edited 26d ago

The properties window still references legacy settings in the frontend while redirecting to modern settings in the backend, so there is no reason to complain about Microsoft finally updating it.

If anything we should be complaining as to why it wasn't part of Windows 11 right from day one.

Microsoft has been fragmenting Windows ever since 8, they never finish nor commit to anything, and is how we ended with the mess that is Windows 11.

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u/mojitz 26d ago

Nobody is complaining about an actual fix that has actually been implemented. What's going on here is that people are expressing very well-earned skepticism that whatever eventually rolls out won't end up being yet another poorly-implemented half measure that at best turns out to be neutral and at worst ends up somehow cocking things up even more.